I Went into the Maverick Bar by Gary Snyder

I found this poem very funny and love the comparison. The poem clearly expresses the author on vacation. It explains in detailed what he could or would on vacation, letting out his personal experience he had. This poem is express in a smooth and calm tone that full with joy. The image I understood in the poem was the author made sure he wrote in detailed for us as the reader to feel as we were there. In my point of view, he went on this vacation to release all stress and ego that is inside of him. Yet he didn’t even know that he was doing this. That the part that was remarkable to me. In lines (15-21), the author states; “They [the dancing couple] held each other like in High School dances in the fifties, I recalled when I worked in the woods and the bars of Madras, Oregon. That short-haried joy and roughness, America -- your stupidity. I could almost love you again”. The author shows his sense of his relationship to America, though fraught and ambiguous like the syntax through the poem. He seeks to clarify through his relationship to the work he once did in the woods and bars of Oregon. If his alienation seems to frame a challenge to the complacent America is portray in this bar, it is also seen to be the product of imagery traditionally thought of as ‘deeply' American. Also in my opinion the author seems as if he did experience already but in his fantasy world. The work of the poem is not, therefore, it’s inspiring to integrate the environments of land and poem. The poem asserts that romantic transcendence, that which sees the poem as a riprap. It is in recognizing the deeply ingrained patterns of America's acculturation of the land that the real work of ecological reading can begin.

Howl by Allen Ginsberg

Howl is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg. I found this poem very unique and very different from all the other poems I read so far. For one things the length is three times as long than the others, but I feel this poem has specfic message that it was sharing on how not to be or do things. I believe the author, Ginsberg feelings is talking about the drug use that occur in the late 1970. Howl appears to be a sprawling, disorganized poem. But it's not. It has of three sections that consist with prolonged "riff" on a single subject. I think the author wrote this poem as eye witness of these events. Everything that he discuss in his poem describe our society and how is. These are people "who did this, who did that," etc. We quickly learn in the poem that these "best minds" were not doctors, lawyers, and scientists. They were not people whom most middle-class folks in the 1950s would have identified with the best America had to offer. The central question of this poem is "Where?" The poem ends with the image for us as reader to keep dreaming,where would they will reunite.

The Secret

I believe the poem “The Secret” by Denise Levertov is about learning through thought and imagination. I believe the two girls in the poem are reading a poem and deciphering what it means to them. What these two girls learn the secretmay not be what the author is meaning the lesson or the secret meaning hidden in the poem to be (“I who don’t know the secret wrote the line”). These two girls will not tell what they have learned or found or even give a hint. I believe they want other people to look for themselves and see what they can find or learn. The author now believes after time passes that these two girls have moved on to something else and have forgotten what they found or learned the first time. The author is happy about this because it gives the girls a reason to read this poem many more times and find new lessons and secrets. The author still doesn’t know what these two girls are talking about with the secret but he is glad they think there is a secret, he is grateful for them.
I believe the poem “The Secret” by Denise Levertov is about learning through thought and imagination. I believe the two girls in the poem are reading a poem and deciphering what it means to them. What these two girls learn the secretmay not be what the author is meaning the lesson or the secret meaning hidden in the poem to be (“I who don’t know the secret wrote the line”). These two girls will not tell what they have learned or found or even give a hint. I believe they want other people to look for themselves and see what they can find or learn. The author now believes after time passes that these two girls have moved on to something else and have forgotten what they found or learned the first time. The author is happy about this because it gives the girls a reason to read this poem many more times and find new lessons and secrets. The author still doesn’t know what these two girls are talking about with the secret but he is glad they think there is a secret, he is grateful for them.

The Hour and What Is Dead

This poem I read this week was about people who do not believe in god. Not saying he doesnt believe in god is more like he is question. Reason being after his brother death his believe decrease and wondering why. Since that happen now he has negative outcome or outlook towards anything.
The author of this poem is upset and hurt. In the begin, it appears he had close relationship with god but since he took something close and persona.He begin disappointed and mad. He did not like what god did even though he knew everyone had to go. Now you can see the author has another view towards god. He beginning to have second thoughts but that not the way, God is just taking his children home. But i understand and feel the author pain losing a love. Yet everyone around does and react the way the author did when losing a love one. Everyone always say and wonder why them.